Review Article

Interventions to Increase Blood Donation among Ethnic/Racial Minorities: A Systematic Review

Table 2

Study inclusion criteria.

Inclusion criterion

1Evaluate an intervention designed to increase blood donation recruitment and/or retention, regardless of study design

2Include adult participants in a country classified as high income by the World Bank [27] (as a proxy indicator of a formalised blood donation and supply system) [11]

3Include participants with an ethnic/racial minority background that:
(a) was important to blood or tissue typing and/or
(b) who formed a large group of potential new donors [1] and/or
(c) were from a different country/region of origin to the majority of a country’s population and/or
(d) differed linguistically from the majority language of a country

4Report on any outcome measure of blood donation behaviour or blood donation intentions